Chronograph help

[Dale Smith]

So as you all told me to do, I ordered a Chrono. I’d forgotten all about it and assumed the dusty looking parcel wasn’t for me, until the wife pointed out otherwise.

Confession time. I’m what others would politely call “a bit thick” My school nickname was Dimmy, in honour of this.

Questions, see pics.

Have I set this up correctly?

They sent me 3 led strip thingys from China. I presume this was a mistake?

The instruction leaflet is in Chinese. As for Google Translate, it might as well have stayed in Chinese. Do you have one of these yourself? An elastic band is recording 30.98. What the fvck does that mean. I have
Dyscalculia, so the most simple explanation would be appreciated (probably either feet or metres per second I think)

Thanks

 

[Gulo Luseus]

setup looks right to me- if its reading something its probably correct!
The spare strip is just then, if you damage one "by mistake" (as opposed to on ppurpose I guess) its a replacement.
Not sure what its reading- if it was metres it would br about 101 feet, which is awful low.
Have you got the make/model? Can have a mooch on google and see what it turns up

 

[Dale Smith]

setup looks right to me- if its reading something its probably correct!
The spare strip is just then, if you damage one "by mistake" (as opposed to on ppurpose I guess) its a replacement.
Not sure what its reading- if it was metres it would br about 101 feet, which is awful low.
Have you got the make/model? Can have a mooch on google and see what it turns up

Thanks Gulo. I ordered this shortly after interacting with you, as you will recall.

There’s no branding whatsoever. All it came with was the below pictured leaflet. I’ll take it to the range at the weekend and see what it reads. If it’s metres per second then it’s about that x3 for fps (roughly)

Thanks for the reply re set up. I appear to have done it correctly.

 

[Star7]

The spare light bar is a (wait for it) a spare. Some of us tend to shoot them, I do not know why. A spare is a good thing. The light bars are polarized. That means you connect them such that each bar lights up.

When you first switch the #$%!! thing on, it will give you about two seconds to touch the FPS key otherwise you get meters per second which makes you ask what the fvck is that; it's the speed of the rubber band in meters per second. I have one of these, the damn thing can actually measure the velocity of a fruit fly.
(about 10mps)

Keep at it, I have several chronographs due to having several shooting locations. This one keeps up with the expensive ones very well. There is a way to lengthen the period of time it gives a display. That is worth investigating.

this ain't your fault.....the "instructions" are an epic of chinglish

 

[Dale Smith]

The spare light bar is a (wait for it) a spare. Some of us tend to shoot them, I do not know why. A spare is a good thing. The light bars are polarized. That means you connect them such that each bar lights up.

When you first switch the #$%!! thing on, it will give you about two seconds to touch the FPS key otherwise you get meters per second which makes you ask what the fvck is that; it's the speed of the rubber band in meters per second. I have one of these, the damn thing can actually measure the velocity of a fruit fly.
(about 10mps)

Keep at it, I have several chronographs due to having several shooting locations. This one keeps up with the expensive ones very well. There is a way to lengthen the period of time it gives a display. That is worth investigating.

this ain't your fault.....the "instructions" are an epic of chinglish

Thanks Star. I will persevere. In the meantime, we've had some good all round family fun testing and identifying the most powerful elastic band in the house. What on earth ever happened to pea shooters. They disappeared about the same time as white dog s1ht. I’m sure I can get one somewhere and let the Chrono fun continue

 

[Sarge]

The spare light bar is a (wait for it) a spare. Some of us tend to shoot them, I do not know why.

It's a law of nature.

It has to happen or the sun goes out, or something like that.

 

[Sak]

Does it not say shoot the chrono to christen it or have we all been getting it wrong ?

 

[Star7]

I admit to shooting two chronys in the last 20yrs but one really deserved it.

 

[chouchin66]

I admit to shooting two chronys in the last 20yrs but one really deserved it.

1 variable scope, 1 cell phone...no chronys.
All planned.

 

[Dale Smith]

Pretty pointless China sending me a spare tbh. With my current abilities, if I shot at mine, I’d probably miss

 

[Dave55]

Worth noting my mods in another thread which do improve consistency (but not accuracy).

If its the wifi version it requires a USB 5v supply and I use a power brick for this in the garden. Connect via a change of wifi to HT50 (password 88888888 I think) and then load web page 8.8.8.8

I taped the spare light bar inside the unit to keep it safe.

Use:

• Power on
• Press button within 2 seconds - see MPS
• Press button again - see FPS
• Press and hold button to see FPS again, release button.
• See - -
• Test with rubber band and paper pellet 70-120 FPS

 

[TimD81]

Don't use rechargeable batteries mine wouldn't work properly with them was on the verge of returning for a refund then had the brain fart to try some new normal duracell batteries and hey presto worked fine, still a fiddly cumbersome thing that I just keep in the box as a spare/backup chrono, but they do work fine

 

[Dale Smith]

Worth noting my mods in another thread which do improve consistency (but not accuracy).

If its the wifi version it requires a USB 5v supply and I use a power brick for this in the garden. Connect via a change of wifi to HT50 (password 88888888 I think) and then load web page 8.8.8.8

I taped the spare light bar inside the unit to keep it safe.

Use:

• Power on
• Press button within 2 seconds - see MPS
• Press button again - see FPS
• Press and hold button to see FPS again, release button.
• See - -
• Test with rubber band and paper pellet 70-120 FPS

I don’t think mine is a wi-fi version, perhaps more because it wasn’t expensive. Very little information at point of sale and even less when the product arrived. Do you have any pics of yours for comparison? If so, any would be appreciated, but don’t bother about going out of your way to take and post if you’ve got better things to do. It isn’t that important, but if you are particularly bored and want something to do……………

Thanks for the tip re taping the spare in the recess underneath to “keep it safe” Now that’s a very good idea that I certainly wouldn’t have thought of. In my case, I’m rephrasing that to “keep it all together”. This will avoid me having to ask myself “where the fvck did I put that” if I do damage one.

 

[Neil54]

I taped the spare light bar inside the unit to keep it

Now that's a good idea.

 

[Dale Smith]

Now that's a good idea.

Hahahah

It really is isn’t it, as stated in my last post. I genuinely would never have thought of this. In the event of a breakage, I’d be searching the garage/house/shed for the spare and accusing my mrs of throwing it away if I couldn’t find it

 

[Dave55]

You can tell the wifi version as it has a power socket on the side near the front.

Hope that helps.

 

[Dale Smith]

Thanks Dave. Not mine then. I’m getting major Chrono jealousy here. I’m sure I’ll get over it, but in the meantime, I hope you have loads of connectivity issues

Thanks again for your tips/help @Dave55

 

[Dale Smith]

So feedback on this item if of interest to anyone. Took it up to the range today. 3 different guns went over it. I didn’t write the results down, I just used the converter to calculate the foot pound based on the readings which were very consistent with each weapon that would naturally produce different feet per second readings.

Gamo Arrow .177 came in at 11.4 foot pounds
CP2 .177 in pistol configuration came in at 5.1 foot pounds
HW99 .22 came in at 11.3 foot pounds

So despite it’s cheap price this Chrono appears to do what it’s supposed to do

 

[crissdee]

1 variable scope, 1 cell phone...no chronys.
All planned.

I shot my old company phone at the range. It completely "bricked" on me halfway through the working day (HTC something) so I had to find a phone box to phone the office and let them know I was offline until further notice. Went to T*scos to get some lunch, and bought the cheapest phone they had (£10 at the time) so I could keep working. Silver lining was that I jumped the queue for the new smartphones they were going to issue....